Washing-machine



(No Model.)

H. BAUERFEIND.

WASHING MACHINE.

, Patented Sept. 6, 1887.

WITNESSES? ATTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT tries.

HENRY BAUERFEIND, OF SHAVVANO, WVISCONSIN.

WASHING- MACHINE.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 369,495, dated September 6, 1887.

Application filed Juno 2, 1886. Serial No. 203,908. (No model.)

To all 10720112, it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY BAUERFEIND,

of Shawano, in the county of Shawano and State of vVisconsin, have invented a new and Improved WVashing-Machine, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to machines adapted for washing clothes, and has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and efficient machine of this class, which may be operated easily to thoroughly wash the clothes with economy of time and labor and without injuring the clothes.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the washing-machine, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a vertical longitudinal sectional elevation of the washing-machine. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional elevation of the machine, taken on the line a: at, Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of one of the bearings of the shaft of the main drum or washing-wheel of the machine.

The box or tub A, in which the clothes and washingfluid are to be placed, is preferably rectangular in form, and is supported on suitable legs, a, at convenient height.

In bearings B, fixed to the top of opposite sides of the box A, the journals 0 c of the main drum 0 are fitted, said journals being slipped into open slots Z) of the bearings and confined therein by pins 1), which are connected by chains 1) to the box A, to prevent loss of the pins. The bearings B are held to the box A by screws passed through holes b in the bearings. (See Fig. 3.) To one of the journals 0 a crank, D, is held by a nut, d, and so that the drum 0 may be turned in either direction by the crank.

The drum 0 consists of two metal ends or heads, 0 0 which are provided with recesses or sockets 0 in which fit the opposite ends of the corrugated wood blocks or staves G, which form the periphery of the drum and constitute the upper clothesrubber of the machine. The drum-heads c c are held firmly to the ends of the blocks G by bolts 0, which pass through the inside of the drum and bind all parts of the drum securely together.

To the opposite sides of the box A, next its bottom and immediately under thejournals c c of the drum (7, there are fixed a couple of plates, E E, which have vertical slots or grooves e e, in which fit loosely the pins ff, which are fixedin the opposite side pieces,ff, of a frame, F, along the top of which there are journaled a series of rollers, G, which describe a curved line at their peripheries conforming about to the periphery of the main drum or wheel 0, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The end rollers, G, of the series are preferably plain, and the faces of the intermediate rollers are corrugated lengthwise. The sides f f of the frame F are tied to each other by rounds or cross-bars f preferably two at each end of the frame, and which allow the rollers Gto rotate freely between the sides of the frame. To the lower edges of the sidesff of the frame F are fixed the central parts of bowed or arched platcsprings H H, the opposite ends of which rest and work freely on metal wear-plates I I, fixed to the bottom of the box A. With this construction the roller-frame F G will be held by the guide-pins ff directly under the drum 0, and the rollers will be allowed to yield freely by the springs H, to accommodate a greater or lesser quantity of clothes passed between the drum and rollerframe to be washed.

To one end of the box A there is pivoted at J the side-bars, k 743, of a bench, K, the top of which consists, preferably, of cross-rods k, fixed in the bars k. Legs k connected by a round, 13, support the outer end of the bench, which forms a substantial support for a tub or basket, in which the clothes may be placed while soaking, or for bluing, or when wrung out ready for drying.

The operation is as follows: Asuitable quantity of clothes placed in the water or suds in the box A will be entered between the main drum or wheel 0 and the rollers G, and the crank D will be turned to cause the clothes to be carried almost through between the drum and lower rubbing-rollers, whereupon the motion of the crank and drum will be reversed to carry the clothes back again to their startingpoint, and the motion of the crank and drum will be reversed to carry the clothes forward again between the drum and lower rollers, and

this alternate backward and forward motion will be given the clothes between the drum and rollers until the dirtis rubbed or washed from the clothes, and the crank will then be turned 5 either way until the washed clothes are dis- IO or heavy fabrics, and will not tear the clothes.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A washing-machine comprising the tub or I5 vessel A, the drum 0, journaled in the tub and having parallel straight ribs, the plates E on the inner opposite sides of the tub, having vertical grooves e in alignment with the axis of the drum, the rocking frame F, the series of parallel rollers G, journaled in the sides ff of the frame approximately concentric with the drum, pins f on the outer faces of the said sides, at the centers thereof, and the bowed springs H, resting at their ends on the bottom of the tub and engaging the lower edges of the sides f f with their central parts, whereby the frame F is allowed a vertical and a rocking movement, substantially as set forth.

HENRY BAUERFEIN D.

Witnesses:

W. H. MURDooK O. E. MUNN. 

